Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, an adjunct scholar with the Vatican Observatory, will give a webinar titled: God's Revelation through Nature: Scientific and Theological Perspectives - Saturday February 5, 2022 at 5:00 PM Italian time (11:00 AM EST time) - hosted by the Catholic Conscience Forum and the Society of Catholic Scientists. How do scientists understand theology and […]
Covid, Faith, and the Fallibility of Science The lecture will begin at 10:30am and the respondent portion will begin at 1:00pm. Each talk will have their own livestream link. In the fight against the COVID pandemic, the scientific evidence in favor of vaccination is overwhelming, with firm support from the Holy See. Nevertheless, many faithful Christians […]
Covid, Faith, and the Fallibility of Science The respondent portion will begin at 1:00pm, and have its own livestream link. In the fight against the COVID pandemic, the scientific evidence in favor of vaccination is overwhelming, with firm support from the Holy See. Nevertheless, many faithful Christians remain conflicted. This dichotomy has implications beyond vaccine skepticism. The […]
Every month, the Moon’s eccentric orbit carries it to apogee – its most distant point from Earth.
Illustration of Vera Rubin from a series of illustrations for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Credit: BEATRIZ ARRIBAS DE FRUTOS. A significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progresses […]
Oil painting of St. Valentine by Leonhard Beck from around 1510. Saint Valentine (Italian: San Valentino, Latin: Valentinus) was a widely recognized 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Christianity on February 14. From the High Middle Ages his Saints’ Day is associated with a tradition of courtly love. – Wikipedia
On February 15 2013 an asteroid exploded in the sky over the city of Chelyabinsk, in the the southern Ural region of Russia. The shock wave blew out windows all over the city, injuring over 1600 people, and damaged several buildings. This event could well be the tipping point in public awareness about asteroids; a year after the […]
Every month, the Moon’s eccentric orbit carries it to perigee, the Moon’s closest point to Earth in its orbit – then 2 weeks later, to apogee, its most distant point from Earth.i
Jupiter will pass close to the Sun in the sky as its orbit carries it around the far side of the solar system from the Earth.
